Month: November 2017

Ultimate Frisbee, otherwise known as Ultimate, is fairly new to most people’s consciousness, but it is not to be taken lightly, argues St Mary’s University men’s team captain, Alex Dickinson.
He explained how this lack of knowledge causes people to underrate Ultimate.
Dickinson explained that people often asked him: "Ultimate Frisbee?

Women’s sport is the place to be.
The 2017 Women’s Football World Cup attracted record crowds. So did the 2017 Women’s Ashes series across all formats, with many people seeing it as a turning point in women’s cricket.
Women’s golf is no exception either. Attendances at events are up and

In the seventh addition of the Don’t Crack Podcast, we discuss the landscape of British boxing, following big fight withdrawals, big fight announcements and a visit to the Australian jungle.
For this episode we were joined by our Sports Gazette Colleague and avid boxing fan, Shane Murphy.
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Sports Gazette talked with Tonny Sanneh, who played for the USA at the 2002 World Cup. He spoke about what it was like to be part of the world’s biggest competition and the more recent failings of the national side, as well as whether Messi is at the same level

Sports Gazette spoke to Dutch referee Jan ter Harmsel who gives a cross-channel perspective on the more challenging aspects of refereeing at high levels of football.
Ter Harmsel is widely respected as a referee and the author of a popular refereeing blog in the Netherlands.
We asked him specifically about the verbal abuse

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Men’s health is something we don’t speak about enough, for the last few years one company has been trying to change that by growing hair above their lip.
The Movember foundation started back in 2003 and has a very simple goal, to stop men dying to young.
From the 30 moustaches in

Tiziano Brioni (left) and Gianfranco Giglioli will both race to become the first F1 Esports Series champion in Abu Dhabi. (James Pike photo)
Given their rich history in Formula 1, it probably shouldn't be a surprise that Italy are well represented in the Finals of the inaugural Formula 1 Esports Series.
Gianfranco Giglioli and Tiziano Brioni both

After a recent international resurgence and a glorious summer spent with the Lions, England international James Haskell could have been forgiven for throwing his toys out of the pram at his exclusion from Eddie Jones’ squad for the Autumn internationals.
His reaction when I asked him about it couldn’t have been

Archie Thompson is a name synonymous with the most obscure of sporting trivia. On 11 April 2001, the centre-forward scored thirteen times as Australia set a seemingly unbreakable world record, beating American Samoa 31-0 in an infamous FIFA World Cup qualifier.
It is a record that those who inhabit the tiny

“I think it’s just a few things here and there. Certainly, you slow up a little bit and your top speed isn’t as high as it was,” Nick Matthew admits as he explains the reasoning behind his upcoming spring retirement.
The only Englishman to win the World Championship, Matthew has been